Karina Diaz

BIO

Karina Diaz lives in Los Angeles, California where she is a child care center Site Supervisor and Curriculum Coordinator and continues her work as a creative writer.

Aquí no hay suicidios

There
are never any suicides.

A
fourteen-year-old girl disappears on her way to the maquiladora.There
are no missing posters.Her mother
patrols unfamiliar streets.The
police will not look.Her
daughter will not be found.She
joins forty-six nameless faces.Las
desaparecidas.

A boy crosses the Rio Grande.A rusted
St. Anthony medallion rests in the back pocket of his patched jeans.

There
were dirt roads marred with gravel. Mango and avocado trees. The occasional
rabid dog. Stray cats. Scorpions. Sunday mass every hour on the hour.